Three years after Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, Egyptians are meeting the revolution anniversary split between the Muslim Brotherhood and the army. Relentless protests and terror acts plague the country, with at least 49 dead in clashes on Saturday.

Saturday in Cairo was set to start with marches and rallies, but
kicked off with a car bomb explosion near police headquarters.
This explosion injured just one person, but on Friday a series of
four deadly blasts claimed the lives of six people, including
four police officers. The explosion also resulted in many
wounded.

Al-Qaeda-linked militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (Supporters
of Jerusalem), based in Egypt's lawless Sinai Peninsula took
responsibility for the attacks in the Egyptian capital. The
messages were placed in advance on jihad forums on Friday,
reported the SITE monitoring service.

Another explosion was heard near a police building in the city of
Suez, state television reported. The building was a camp for riot
police in the city. At least nine people were wounded.

The attacks ramped up tensions in the Egyptian capital. Crowds of
angry people gathered at the site of the bomb blast that ripped
open the front of Cairo's main police HQ.

The people there support the government in blaming the
Brotherhood, and say it is a revenge attack on the state for
overthrowing Islamist President Morsi in July 2013.

“The Brotherhood are to blame for this, the terrorists want
to break the country in half,” a middle-aged man told RT.

“Some are afraid to leave their homes but most are more
determined than ever to go to the streets against the Brotherhood
on the revolution anniversary,” promised an elderly citizen.

“With anger mounting, there is likely to be a harsher
crackdown on the Islamist group,” reports RT correspondent,
Bel Trew, from the epicenter of the unrest.

The Muslim Brotherhood was formally labeled a terrorist
organization in Egypt in December.

But angered supporters of the Brotherhood and its toppled
President Mohamed Morsi have been defying protest bans and
clashing with police in various parts of Egypt ever since.

On Saturday, clashes between police and Islamist protesters
claimed at least 49 lives across the country. Most of those
killed were in Cairo, but fatalities were also reported in
Alexandria and the southern town of Minya. Around 247 people were
wounded, according to the Health Ministry, cited by the MENA news
agency.

In the capital, police had to use live rounds to disperse over
1,000 anti-government protesters. Another crowd of liberal
activists attempting to rally on Tahrir Square was dispersed by
firing tear gas and birdshot at people protesting against the
military-backed interim government.

People running around with hand guns. Crazy. Fights around us
still. Hard get out of back streets. #cairo

1,079 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were arrested throughout the
country, the Interior Ministry reported.

The military-installed government accuses the Brotherhood of
being behind a rising insurgency and spike in terror attacks.

“The media has observed the scheme announced by the
Brotherhood at their meetings abroad. They want to disable the
country's political roadmap and disturb the referendum on the
constitution,” Egypt’s Interior Ministry spokesman, Major
General Hani Abdel Latif, told RT.

Brotherhood supporters have a contrary argument and say they are
under attack from the power-hungry military, which has already
placed hundreds of activists behind bars.

Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, Mohamed Soudan, has openly accused
the military of staging the recent bombings “to justify
massacring the opposition on the streets.”

All journalists please very careful. Mobs attacking journalists
(even egyptians) accusing them of being part of
Al-jazeera.Tahrir not safe

Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire, told RT in an
interview that Egypt's government is asking for more trouble by
completely turning its back on the opposition.

“The army cannot guarantee security inside Egypt as long as
there is no political solution to the split that exists between
the Brotherhood and the military and those allying with it,”
said Azikiwe, recalling that opponents of the military-backed
regime staged a “significant boycott of the referendum
elections last week.”

“I believe the tensions are going to grow,” Abayomi
Azikiwe shared, as long as the government continues to suppress
the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters who disagree with the
current rule.

“There is potential for more conflict,” Azikiwe warned.

With tensions boiling, a new constitution gained approval from
the Egyptians earlier this month. The new document broadened the
army's powers and shielded the military budget from cuts, giving
the armed forces the right to approve defense ministers and try
civilians in military courts. But with a polarized and bitter
society and revolution growing, this might not in the end prove
enough to shield the army from the pendulum of public anger.

3 years ago Tahrir banner read "the people demand the fall of
the regime" now it's a banner calling for Sisi to run pic.twitter.com/YsqRy7HtA5